Being told stories and being read to leads children to develop the rich storehouse of language, grammar and vocabulary they need to bring to texts when learning to read and write.
Try our multilingual stories below or send us your own stories to share with others.

Multilingual stories

Looking for stories to read in a range of African languages and English? Try our growing collection of stories to print out or read aloud.

Featured Story

The sky is falling down!

One sunny day, Little Chicken went out to look for food. She was walking undera clump of marula trees, when suddenly THWACK! – a fruit from one of thetrees fell on her head.

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